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Utah Senate issues citation honoring Fred C. Adams, founder of Utah Shakespeare Festival
Summary
The Utah State Senate presented an official citation recognizing Fred C. Adams’s decades-long role in founding and growing the Utah Shakespeare Festival and its regional arts infrastructure, with family and festival leaders in attendance.
The Utah State Senate presented an official citation honoring Fred C. Adams on the floor, recognizing his role in establishing the Utah Shakespeare Festival in 1961 and his contributions to the state’s arts institutions. Senator Evan Vickers invited Adams’s family and festival leaders to the chamber and introduced the citation for public reading.
The reading clerk summarized Adams’s awards and legacy: the Beverly Taylor Sorensen Center for the Arts at Southern Utah University, national and state arts recognitions, service to the international Shakespearean community and decades of public service as a teacher, director, mentor and arts leader. The citation notes the festival’s growth into one of North America’s most renowned regional Shakespeare theaters.
Senator Vickers reflected on Adams’s personal impact and urged senators to follow his example of “kindness and civility,” saying, “he adopted two words, and he’s lived by those, and that was kindness and civility.” Senators offered additional remarks praising Adams’s cultural and economic contributions to Cedar City and the state.
The family and festival representatives who attended were acknowledged on the floor. The Senate presented the citation as an expression of appreciation; the citation text recorded that it was presented in February 2020 by Senate President J. Stewart Adams and Majority Leader Evan Vickers.
The recognition concluded with senators’ remarks and a standing ovation on the chamber floor.
